Another week, another former Tory cabinet minister working a room. Last week I brought you news of Liam Fox entertaining the great and good of the Tory party. Now I hear that Andrew Mitchell has been making an extra special effort to be nice to absolutely everyone. The former chief whip was being very friendly to the commentariat at a drinks party at a recently opened hotel in Westminster. He shunned sceptical news journalists, but made determined passes at those with influential column inches. Whatever could he want them to say?
George Osborne was at the same private party, pressing flesh like a coiffured madam in a brothel. There was no sign, though, of the PM, which was slightly surprising given his comments to the House Magazine this week about his need to escape regularly from the ‘cage’ of Number 10.
By the way, that interview proves that the PM’s learnt his lesson from boasting about his love for DVDs and ‘chillaxing’.
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